Customers are going to continue to want to do more with less through the course of this year even though a significant number of those controlling the IT budget purse strings expect their funds to increase. Things have moved on from the pressure to use IT as a cost cutting tool last year but the en

ComputerLinks has been signed up by Tufin Technologies as a UK and Ireland distribution partner giving the channel player the chance to extend the protection its resellers can offer around firewalls and network management. With recent research highlighting the failure of many existing firewalls to

Hosted services provider InTechnology has disputed claims made by Gartner last year that it is cheaper for end-users to build their own datacentres rather than outsource them. Speaking last November at the Gartner Datacentre and IT Operations Summit 2011, Gartner research vice president Rakesh Kumar

Oracle has finalized its $1.5 billion acquisition of CRM SaaS provider RightNow Technologies, and to celebrate executives held a webcast outlining their future plans for all the CRM and cloud products the two have on the table.

Industry trade association CompTIA claims to have uncovered a damning lack of career information for those interested in pursuing a job in IT, with misconceptions and half-truths aboutthesectorabounding. Although the majority of young people already have some of the skills that the industry demands,

Credit for SMEs is set to become an even bigger headache as the volume of lending from the major banks drops. A warning sounded by Ernst & Young groups SMEs along with those individuals with credit prolems as likely to be the hardest hit as loan lines are tightened. The accounting firm has rev

RM has admitted that it was caught napping during the slowdown and failed to fully appreciate the scale of thecrisis thanks to the mitigating effect of the cancelled Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. The education providerblamed an "unsuccessful international expansion programme

Fujitsu has launched a new dealer offer promising thatresellers flogging itsPrimergy server lineswill make up to 8% additional margins if they hit their sales targets during the first quarter of 2012. The firm claims this means VARs could potentially be making upwards of 20% on each unit sold, and h

Security specialist F-Secure has taken the wraps off its content cloud strategy talking up the opportunities it offers partners that act as hosted service operators. The vendor's Content Anywhere product is designed to allow users to access information from PCs, tablets, smartphones and digital TVs

Gartner research director Ranjit Atwal has warned that PC vendors face an "uphill struggle" to regain the interest of consumers in the UK, saying that the introduction of ultrabooks was "desperately needed" to give the market a shot in the arm after it turned in its worst perform

An insight into the murky world of hacking and corporate extortion have emerged as a result of the details of a blackmail plot against Symantec being made public. The vendor, which is itself a security specialist, found itself facing a $50,000 ransom demand last month unless it paid a hacker that w

McAfee has shuffled its management pack announcing a fresh face to run its UK and Ireland operation just days after its former country head turned up at CA Technologies. Ross Allen, vice president for Canada and Northeast United States, is being moved to run the UK and will be based here. His appoi

VMware's vCloud certified partners are to get access to a new integration tool - vCloud Integration Manager - designed to help them automate delivery and operation of vCloud Director-based environments. The new software package is designed to allowservice providersto create and deploy cloud services

A year and a day after it acquired network security outfit Top Layer in a reverse takeover, Corero Network Security has signed up Cohort in the UK to revitaliseand prime thechannel to sellits DDOS attack prevention and mitigation solutions. Corero has serviced the channel through VADition since Apri

Symantec users will be braced to see if the vendor has done enough to develop patches that will protect its pcAnywhere product from attacks now its code has been released into the wild. The code was published yesterday by hacker YamaTough, who has claimed to be part of the Anonymous Group, and had

Computer Weekly speaks to Jan Ford, head of ICT strategy at Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and lead on the government’s fast stream graduate IT programme, about the importance of nurturing the next generation of IT leaders in government.

Cloud services specialist Redstor has revealed that 80% of its revenues are now being driven through the channel and revenues in hosted backup and storage are growing. The firm provided an update on its progress commenting that cloud income had increased by 43% as a result of it focusing more busin

Desktop management andVDI strategies areproving a hot topic for the industry in the opening months of the year, with multiple solutions jostling for position as the migration to Windows 7 gathers paceand the PC market flounders. Rob Lovell of hosted desktop and SaaS providerThinkGrid said that in li

In a week that has already seen it take on Tufin Technologies, Computerlinks has added another security vendor to its channel mix in the shape of next-generation security platform specialist Sourcefire. The Newmarket-based network and security distie is Sourcefire's second appointment in the UK, whi

Incoming Ingram Micro CEO Alain Monié has pledged to improve productivity within the business, grow its higher margin speciality business and invest heavily in its cloud proposition. Speaking on his first results call since taking over the role from Greg Spierkel last month, Monié said

Dropping productivity across the UK threatens to undermine any chances of economic recovery unless a coherent strategy is established to exploit IT. IT trade body Intellect has warned that although technology cannot solve all of the problems in the economy it could spur productivity gains and count

IBM has shuffled its UK channel management pack as the former partner head Jacqueline Davey heads to Europe to move into a strategic sales leadership role. Her replacement running business partners and mid market for the UK and Ireland is Richard Potts (pictured) who has taken the reigns after a re

Lenovo's strategy of protecting its market share and attacking that commanded by rivals appears to be paying off as the vendor reported growth in its third quarter. The vendor has been climbing up the market shares charts and has made several statements in recent months about there being plenty of

Cisco's painful restructuring programme looks to be paying off with CEO John Chambers going as far as to ignite talk about acquisitions in the coming months. Thenetworking sector bellwetherbreezed cheerfully past previously announced sales targets in its second quarter, and nearly doubled its profit

Business ISP Timico has swooped on Avaya and Mitelpartner Redwood, which specialises in IP telephony, conferencing and contact centre services. East Midlands-based Timico said that the acquisition would broaden its abilities around the unified comms proposition, as well as establishing a foothold in

The tablet market is splitting into two tiers with high-end and luxury brands at one end of the spectrum and mainstream offerings at the other. As a result there will be little room for success in the middle ground, warned Context research, which has warned that those products pitched below the iPa

RM asleep at the wheel during education spending crisis RM has admitted that it was caught napping during the slowdown and failed to fully appreciate the scale of thecrisis thanks to the mitigating effect of the cancelled BSF programme. The education providerblamed an "unsuccessful internationa

Security resellers might be missing the low hanging fruit around license renewals because they don't have the necessary tools to keep an eye on customer purchasing cycles. A suggested answer, that comes from SonicWALL, is to lean more on vendors to exploit the tools they can offer to automate licen

Fujitsu is ramping up its exposure to the virtualised desktop (VDI) market and is on the prowl for specialist virtualisation partners to make its dreams come true The firm has launched a new SELECT Expert accreditation to address the market, as well as recruited Peter Bolton, formerly UK boss of thi

Broadband networking specialist ZyXEL has won a major deal with business ISP Eclipse Internet to supply routers for customers buying its ADSL and FTTC products. Eclipse senior technical support analyst Tom Ward-Scammell said the decision to refresh the firm's offerings had been taken in response to

Education and research network Janet has added Logicalis to a list of approved datacentre and cloud services providerswhich already includes education services provider Eduserv and BPO outfit Liberata,as well as HP and Dell. Under the terms of the framework, Logicalis will offer datacentre hosting a

Here at TheServerSide.com, we've been providing some very dedicated coverage to the new features of Java 7, with a look at tackling some of the new Java 7 APIs like the new File I/O (NIO.2) and concurrency libraries with tutorials and learning guides in the near future.